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...India I was stationed in the Sind desert for a tour. . . . We lived in British tents, ate British field rations. . . . Improvements to our camp were made by Indian coolies. We discarded the sorry sun helmets issued by the Army, as well as the unbearably hot G.I. khaki and wore British topees and summer battle dress...
...cinema's slickest dressers, got back from a four-and-a-half-month USO tour of England, North Africa and Sicily - where he reported there were mosquitoes as big as pigeons. Tanned and thinner, he wore a threadbare royal blue outfit, white shirt, red tie with speckled stripes, khaki sweater, green socks, an exhausted artificial carnation...
...Italy hung on the wall behind him. Sir Harold wore a freshly washed khaki bush jacket, dark grey riding breeches, brown boots. The purple-red decoration of the American Legion of Merit was pinned above his breast pocket. Crisply he asked for questions, crisply he answered...
Last week in Minneapolis, his political retainers, bound by no such vows, looked at the calendar, saw Nebraska's Presidential primary had opened, promptly tossed into the ring the overseas khaki cap of Commander Stassen, thus making him the Republicans' first official Presidential candidate...
Another Admiral. Eastward above the sun-scorched plain of India flew the big transport Marco Polo. At New Delhi the plane circled down, taxied to a hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers...